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Architecting Google Cloud Solutions

By : Victor Dantas
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Architecting Google Cloud Solutions

By: Victor Dantas

Overview of this book

Google has been one of the top players in the public cloud domain thanks to its agility and performance capabilities. This book will help you design, develop, and manage robust, secure, and dynamic solutions to successfully meet your business needs. You'll learn how to plan and design network, compute, storage, and big data systems that incorporate security and compliance from the ground up. The chapters will cover simple to complex use cases for devising solutions to business problems, before focusing on how to leverage Google Cloud's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities for designing modern no-operations platforms. Throughout this book, you'll discover how to design for scalability, resiliency, and high availability. Later, you'll find out how to use Google Cloud to design modern applications using microservices architecture, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices. The concluding chapters then demonstrate how to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to derive insights from your data. Finally, you will discover best practices for operating and monitoring your cloud solutions, as well as performing troubleshooting and quality assurance. By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll be able to design robust enterprise-grade solutions using Google Cloud Platform.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Google Cloud
4
Section 2: Designing Great Solutions in Google Cloud
10
Section 3: Designing for the Modern Enterprise

Chapter 12: Achieving Operational Excellence

The cloud is not just someone else's data center. It's a new operating model for IT. And in all cloud adoption efforts, operational excellence is crucial for long-term success. In fact, it's one of the pillars in Google's Architecture Framework, a collection of best practices created by seasoned experts at Google Cloud. These are practices to consider before, during, and after cloud adoption. It is a continuous and iterative effort, with many ways to start but with no finish line.

In this final chapter, you will begin by learning the strategies and guiding principles of operational excellence. You will then learn how to apply Google Cloud's Architecture Framework best practices to your solutions and incorporate design strategies and guiding principles to improve operational efficiency. Finally, you will also learn how you can use Cloud Operations Sandbox to put this knowledge into practice in Google Cloud. By...